The History Of Watercolor Painting

David Dunlop will discuss the history of watercolor painting in western Europe since the 1500s and its later use and experiments here, while simultaneously demonstrating aspects of that history at Newtown Meeting House.

Mr Dunlop will be the guest of The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN), which meets at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street in Newtown.

The program will begin at 1:30 pm on Wednesday, September 28. There is no admission charge.

Mr Dunlop will discuss the preliminary watercolor sketching strategies through finish techniques of Turner and other early 19th Century English landscape painters. Many of their processes were lost in the subsequent 20th Century redefinition of watercolor. 

He will also be doing his own watercolor process demonstration during the program.

A Wilton resident, Mr Dunlop received a master of fine arts from Pratt Institute in New York City. In 2004 he had a one-person show at The White Gallery in Lakeville, entitled “Dunlop Paints the Northwest Corner.” He has also had solo shows at The Attic Gallery in Portland, Ore.; Left of the Bank in Old Greenwich, Beaux Arts Gallery in Woodbury, and The Lily Pad Gallery in Watch Hill, R.I. He is represented in many prestigious collections in the US and abroad.

He has a DVD/video, Painting Landscape with David Dunlop, with instructions for working in oil and acrylics. He was commissioned to do the artwork for the book Tidewaters of the Connecticut River (2001 River’s End Press, Essex).

Mr Dunlop is a faculty member at Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan.

For additional information call 426-6654.